A former Samsung Electronics employee has been charged with leaking semiconductor technologies to a rival Chinese company.
The Korean Herald reports that the Seoul Central District Prosecutors Office had indicted “the employee surnamed Kim, who formerly served as a department head at Samsung, under physical detention on charges of violating the industrial technology protection law”.
“Kim is accused of having stolen Samsung’s information on the manufacturing of the 18-nano DRAM semiconductor, a state-designated core technology, and transferred it to Chinese semiconductor manufacturer ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) to be used for its product development,” it reports.
It also reports that Kim is suspected of enticing around 20 technicians from Samsung and other firms to move to the Chinese firm in return for “high financial rewards”.
An accomplice of Kim’s also has been charged.
